Well that'll be my first and last time I go to WSR at silverstone thanks to someone putting a nice little sent in the rear panel 😢 I thought that if I got a parking pass to park in the collectors area the car would be ok but that's not the case thanks to a member of the public, I can't praise the lads that organised the parked enough though as they made sure the cars where well parked with plenty of space in between.I'm in mixed emotion about the weekend as the highlight for me was being able to drive my car around the track but on the down side it's going to cost at least £100 on top what's it's cost me to be there this weekend, I made a 4 half hr journey on Friday to be at the hotel so I could get to silverstone early and we stayed for for the weekend.

But I can honestly say this has killed the first experience and probably future ones 😣😢😣Absolutely gutted

That's disgusting. I did catch a woman sitting her newborn son on the roof of the Megane Maxi whilst her other half took ages to take a photo. I also saw 2 people move the sliding windows open and closed on the first car of the central arrow display. Some people just don't respect other people's pride and joy.

Sorry to here this matey. It's not very good when this happens. We tried our best to keep an eye on things after we parked everyone up. We moved a few people on who where trying to get into the cars and even reported it to the police who wondering around so we got an extra set of eyes on things. We made it a priority to leave gaps between cars so people could get through without damaging anyones pride and joy. But you always get some stupid people I guess like being in supermarket car park in that respect I guess. I'm sorry it spoiled your weekend matey I'd be the same if anything had happened to mine but I hope it doesn't put you off totally from future events whether it's this or something else.

Cheers lads, I'll prob get over it eventually! The parking couldn't have been better just as you say some people have no respect.

It's was good chatting to you Nigel., and cheers mate for trying to take a damper of it!!

As for the size of it it's prob around the size of a golf ball and its not noticable dead on just from angles, I tried to get a vid of but the phone didn't really pick it up. I only noticed it when I came back to the car to grab some stuff out the boot and the light caught it, I felt like crying when I saw it! But at least it's repairable.

Cheers lads, I'll prob get over it eventually! The parking couldn't have been better just as you say some people have no respect.

It's was good chatting to you Nigel., and cheers mate for trying to take a damper of it!!

As for the size of it it's prob around the size of a golf ball and its not noticable dead on just from angles, I tried to get a vid of but the phone didn't really pick it up. I only noticed it when I came back to the car to grab some stuff out the boot and the light caught it, I felt like crying when I saw it! But at least it's repairable.

We had a great weekend apart from that.

ThanksWe have spoke about this and if it we are lucky and wsr happens again next year we will send some signs for collectors to put in their cars to show they are collectors cars and not dilly cars for people to sit in

Yeah I think signs may of helped but on the other hand that might make them want to touch even more! I'm afraid it's prob a no win solution other than to totally fence it of, but I doubt that would be an option! What we need is some big ass dudes standing in the area growling if anyone gets to close haha

A story that I can empathise with and precisely why I stopped going years ago. After the break the event had from the UK I went this year on the Saturday and nothing had changed. People persist in looking with their fingers.

As for the comment above, whilst within reason valid, some people don't use their cars every day so it then becomes an issue.

A story that I can empathise with and precisely why I stopped going years ago. After the break the event had from the UK I went this year on the Saturday and nothing had changed. People persist in looking with their fingers.

As for the comment above, whilst within reason valid, some people don't use their cars every day so it then becomes an issue.

Perhaps we should have parked with the "special" cars near the back??

The 'special' cars as you call them where parked there for a number of reasons, one the fence along the bottom appeared late on Friday and was not expected so we needed to park some cars there to make the hospitality trailer look part of the event, secondly we used our cars to store items such as the detailing packs and other items on the day like our food we all did the organising for free and still had to pay to get in, last of all as we was trying to organise the parade laps it made sense for our cars to be out of the way.

If you wanted to park down the bottom you could have asked on the day and it wouldn't have been a problem, I was one of the people that called it on the day to get all the R's parked together, as we had 3 in total. I am sorry if you feel put out by being asked to park where you was, we just did our best on the day.

Well that'll be my first and last time I go to WSR at silverstone thanks to someone putting a nice little sent in the rear panel 😢 I thought that if I got a parking pass to park in the collectors area the car would be ok but that's not the case thanks to a member of the public, I can't praise the lads that organised the parked enough though as they made sure the cars where well parked with plenty of space in between.I'm in mixed emotion about the weekend as the highlight for me was being able to drive my car around the track but on the down side it's going to cost at least £100 on top what's it's cost me to be there this weekend, I made a 4 half hr journey on Friday to be at the hotel so I could get to silverstone early and we stayed for for the weekend.

But I can honestly say this has killed the first experience and probably future ones 😣😢😣Absolutely gutted

Unfortunately we can't control the public and things they do. I personally along with others spent most of Sunday keeping a eye on the cars in the collectors area. There were no special cars as has been said and the reasons they were parked there have been mentioned. Just to let you know Gillian's car that was parked at the event trailer wasn't safe either as she caught someone trying to pick the paint protection film off the bumper. With it being a public event these are things that can happen and in future if there is another collectors area we can look at ways to minimise some of the problems.

Sounds like charging on the doors hasn't helped, it was dodgy back when they let people in free. People climbing on cars etc. etc. I had to sit in mine a lot of the time I just didn't trust leaving it alone back then.

Sounds like charging on the doors hasn't helped, it was dodgy back when they let people in free. People climbing on cars etc. etc. I had to sit in mine a lot of the time I just didn't trust leaving it alone back then.

Would have gone this time though maybe not park with the owners.

Your car would have been fine Tom as I would have made sure it was parked with the special cars 👍🏻

Sounds like charging on the doors hasn't helped, it was dodgy back when they let people in free. People climbing on cars etc. etc. I had to sit in mine a lot of the time I just didn't trust leaving it alone back then.

Would have gone this time though maybe not park with the owners.

It's why in the end I parked my car in the public car park, instead of the collectors area. I just kept on thinking about whether I trusted the public wandering around my car - the answer was a resounding NO.

You've as much chance somet happening in the car park though. it has been known at Silverstone and Donington for people's cars to be tampered with. I remember a few cars being broken into and some even bring loaded onto the back of a low loader and stolen at Donnington many moons ago. There was travellers near by who were taking them from general parking.

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